[Music]
you
[Applause]
so what do you see I’ll show you isn’t
it fascinating to see a chair that pops
out of a flat surface it gives you the
impression that I’m a magician right but
guess what I’m not but it’s one thing to
look at a fixed object but it becomes
another thing when the object tells its
own story and becomes a life like you I
have a curious mind that likes to be
triggered and like you I want to know
how the world around us is being shaped
this level of curiosity is something we
all develop during our childhood when
everything seemed possible and there
were no borders you find your joy in
playing with your wooden blocks or your
Lego and you create the most remarkable
structures without any building
restrictions and even if your parents
didn’t have the money to buy expensive
toys it doesn’t matter because you could
always find something at home to play
with for me it were the wine bottles
that were shattered around the house
which I use as chimney stacks for a
steamship like the Titanic for instance
what I obviously didn’t notice was that
the wire was the new joy in the life of
my parents another example are the
shoelaces I used to make curvaceous
roads in order for my small-scale elf
Romeo’s to play on but this level of joy
and to create your own world disappears
when you get older because you leave it
up for the designers like me to create
your world so you give up your creative
power to the artist actually but
thankfully as a designer I get the
opportunity to bring back the joy in
your mind
and to trigger your curiosity again this
by showing mild joy in my design process
and also show you how an object can
shape itself so who knows when you go
back home you’re gonna go back and look
for your old toys again so this
fascination in creating my own world
started when I was a student studying
architecture and interior design I
quickly noticed that I had to find my
own ingredients to work with
and I saw that all the great artists
like Leonardo da Vinci and they are all
were inspired by nature actually because
nature gives us pure logic and honesty
and beauty has its own function actually
so if you go outside you will notice
that we’re actually not the only
builders on this planet because for
millions of years that were the animals
that improved their building behavior
and the building skills and I like to
call it animal architecture and until
this day we try to do research and
analyze how they do it and in our search
of our own perfection and this is what
we come up with now you find this ugly
or even funny and I’m sure that there
are people that look and see the beauty
out of it which arises a new question
actually because what is beauty aren’t
you obsessed by beauty
and can nature tells us what beauty
stands for because for us it’s a
personal experience and cultural so it’s
for everybody it can be perceived
differently and in the animal kingdom
there are even birds that have their own
perception of beauty like the power bird
he decorates his Bower in order to
impress its female counterpart this is
by collecting only the color blue from
human waste and also what he can find in
nature which is obviously the colour of
his eyes and in this case you could
definitely say beauties in the eye of
the beholder
because can you imagine blue colored
eyed people only would decorate their
house with the color blue that would be
crazy but for me it wasn’t interesting
enough to create objects that were
inspired by animal architecture because
I wanted the objects to talk to me and
tell their own story and it’s like
giving the object legs and see how it
reacts on it by the way he walks on it
and also my help in creating its own
behavior
so this fascination started when I was
doing research on bone structure and yes
I’ve seen some nice bone structure in
the audience today in the faces but
that’s not what I’m referring to because
it’s it’s there for us to protect our
precious organs as a inner and outer
skeleton and the nice thing is that you
can also use it as a handy tool like
your hands but the most fascinating part
is that it’s a combination between
flexibility and wretchedness which
became excellent ingredients for me to
work with so I asked myself the question
what degree is the object you’re
creating capable of dictating its own
design and in order for that to happen a
balanced collaboration between me and
the material was very important because
movement has never-ending possibilities
so I needed to find my border and as I’m
quoting Isaac Newton who says every
if I make cuts in the in the material I
work with it reacts by going in a
certain direction and if I repeat this
behavior it creates a volume which is
flexible and rigid at the same time and
when it reveals itself it shows it’s
true nature by simplicity and minimalism
and you might think that I made a lot of
calculations in order to make this from
happening but actually I was making I
was working overtime with the material
to make this possible but it’s very
important for designers to find the joy
in their design process because
eventually this will be reflected on the
faces of you as an end user so once the
chair reveals itself it shows all the
different functions that are mainly can
be seen on chairs like the legs the back
seat the armrests and the seat itself
and they were all made possible by only
making cuts in the material so I felt
comfortable in my design formula and it
was time to create new objects however
there was one rule so like all the
different animals in the field all the
projects I was working on the new
projects had to have their own
transformation behavior and this is a
this is part of an interior project that
were working on right now in which
natural light comes inside and it’s
getting filtered
by transformation so you can regulate
this and making gaps in the material
like the wood therefore by
transformation it weave reveals the four
legs and the tabletop and in this case
you can also see that by creating those
gaps those gaps become like the design
part of the the whole structure in which
in this case you could say form follows
its function and the same can be said
for the two tabletops that come together
and create a heart of a table that can
be used as a football or map holder and
a lot of people see this as a
revolutionary approach towards flat pack
furniture well in this case because flat
pack furniture usually shows how
functional an object can be but they
skip the loop department so it usually
doesn’t look as all appealing but that
wasn’t my main goal to create flat pack
furniture however you could of course
you can store it on the nature bed or
against the wall but you see that you
have to see it as a bonus because my
final conclusion will be that my main
goal is to trigger your curiosity again
by combining functionality which can be
found in nature with the designers
perspective of beauty and that brings us
art thank you
[Applause] [Music]
you
[Applause]
so what do you see I’ll show you isn’t
it fascinating to see a chair that pops
out of a flat surface it gives you the
impression that I’m a magician right but
guess what I’m not but it’s one thing to
look at a fixed object but it becomes
another thing when the object tells its
own story and becomes a life like you I
have a curious mind that likes to be
triggered and like you I want to know
how the world around us is being shaped
this level of curiosity is something we
all develop during our childhood when
everything seemed possible and there
were no borders you find your joy in
playing with your wooden blocks or your
Lego and you create the most remarkable
structures without any building
restrictions and even if your parents
didn’t have the money to buy expensive
toys it doesn’t matter because you could
always find something at home to play
with for me it were the wine bottles
that were shattered around the house
which I use as chimney stacks for a
steamship like the Titanic for instance
what I obviously didn’t notice was that
the wire was the new joy in the life of
my parents another example are the
shoelaces I used to make curvaceous
roads in order for my small-scale elf
Romeo’s to play on but this level of joy
and to create your own world disappears
when you get older because you leave it
up for the designers like me to create
your world so you give up your creative
power to the artist actually but
thankfully as a designer I get the
opportunity to bring back the joy in
your mind
and to trigger your curiosity again this
by showing mild joy in my design process
and also show you how an object can
shape itself so who knows when you go
back home you’re gonna go back and look
for your old toys again so this
fascination in creating my own world
started when I was a student studying
architecture and interior design I
quickly noticed that I had to find my
own ingredients to work with
and I saw that all the great artists
like Leonardo da Vinci and they are all
were inspired by nature actually because
nature gives us pure logic and honesty
and beauty has its own function actually
so if you go outside you will notice
that we’re actually not the only
builders on this planet because for
millions of years that were the animals
that improved their building behavior
and the building skills and I like to
call it animal architecture and until
this day we try to do research and
analyze how they do it and in our search
of our own perfection and this is what
we come up with now you find this ugly
or even funny and I’m sure that there
are people that look and see the beauty
out of it which arises a new question
actually because what is beauty aren’t
you obsessed by beauty
and can nature tells us what beauty
stands for because for us it’s a
personal experience and cultural so it’s
for everybody it can be perceived
differently and in the animal kingdom
there are even birds that have their own
perception of beauty like the power bird
he decorates his Bower in order to
impress its female counterpart this is
by collecting only the color blue from
human waste and also what he can find in
nature which is obviously the colour of
his eyes and in this case you could
definitely say beauties in the eye of
the beholder
because can you imagine blue colored
eyed people only would decorate their
house with the color blue that would be
crazy but for me it wasn’t interesting
enough to create objects that were
inspired by animal architecture because
I wanted the objects to talk to me and
tell their own story and it’s like
giving the object legs and see how it
reacts on it by the way he walks on it
and also my help in creating its own
behavior
so this fascination started when I was
doing research on bone structure and yes
I’ve seen some nice bone structure in
the audience today in the faces but
that’s not what I’m referring to because
it’s it’s there for us to protect our
precious organs as a inner and outer
skeleton and the nice thing is that you
can also use it as a handy tool like
your hands but the most fascinating part
is that it’s a combination between
flexibility and wretchedness which
became excellent ingredients for me to
work with so I asked myself the question
what degree is the object you’re
creating capable of dictating its own
design and in order for that to happen a
balanced collaboration between me and
the material was very important because
movement has never-ending possibilities
so I needed to find my border and as I’m
quoting Isaac Newton who says every
if I make cuts in the in the material I
work with it reacts by going in a
certain direction and if I repeat this
behavior it creates a volume which is
flexible and rigid at the same time and
when it reveals itself it shows it’s
true nature by simplicity and minimalism
and you might think that I made a lot of
calculations in order to make this from
happening but actually I was making I
was working overtime with the material
to make this possible but it’s very
important for designers to find the joy
in their design process because
eventually this will be reflected on the
faces of you as an end user so once the
chair reveals itself it shows all the
different functions that are mainly can
be seen on chairs like the legs the back
seat the armrests and the seat itself
and they were all made possible by only
making cuts in the material so I felt
comfortable in my design formula and it
was time to create new objects however
there was one rule so like all the
different animals in the field all the
projects I was working on the new
projects had to have their own
transformation behavior and this is a
this is part of an interior project that
were working on right now in which
natural light comes inside and it’s
getting filtered
by transformation so you can regulate
this and making gaps in the material
like the wood therefore by
transformation it weave reveals the four
legs and the tabletop and in this case
you can also see that by creating those
gaps those gaps become like the design
part of the the whole structure in which
in this case you could say form follows
its function and the same can be said
for the two tabletops that come together
and create a heart of a table that can
be used as a football or map holder and
a lot of people see this as a
revolutionary approach towards flat pack
furniture well in this case because flat
pack furniture usually shows how
functional an object can be but they
skip the loop department so it usually
doesn’t look as all appealing but that
wasn’t my main goal to create flat pack
furniture however you could of course
you can store it on the nature bed or
against the wall but you see that you
have to see it as a bonus because my
final conclusion will be that my main
goal is to trigger your curiosity again
by combining functionality which can be
found in nature with the designers
perspective of beauty and that brings us
art thank you
[Applause] [Music]
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